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Sunday’s Super Bowl not only marked one of the biggest upsets in football history, but also marked the unveiling of a major United Way fund-raising campaign using cell-phone text messaging. In a ...

Democratic voters last week received a text message from the Spurs campaign imploring them to pass Propositions A and B in the Nov. 4 election or risk having “tourist dollars” returned to two ...

A photograph from a mass text message sent across Missouri that appears to oppose a campaign to strike down Missouri’s congressional map. SUBMITTED Reality Check is a Star series holding those with ...